It sounds like an academic distinction can it be important? In the end, you still get your part, right. It starts out with one of every item, but there may be thousands of many items. YouĬan add more items to the library, but if you buy a library, you expect it to start out well stocked. Another aspect of a library is that it is relatively static. A more general definition of a library might be that a library is a place you go to get things that exist, as opposed to something like a custom order catalog, where you go to get things that currently don’t exist, but will be made for you. A library, in CAD terms, is a central place where you can go to get parts that might be shared between multiple products.
Solidworks toolbox adding custom parts software#
Those days appear to be largely behind us, and if you look at Toolbox’s functionality in detail and try to understand why it works the way it does, you will see that if nothing else, the vision driving the creators of the software is very compelling. In the past, many people (including myself) have looked at Toolbox as an unmitigated disaster of implementation. Rethink the common wisdom that you should not allow your tools to determine Seeing the overall vision for the software may make you Make you more tolerant of foibles in the software because you know the payoffĬan be great. Tool, as well as understand how flexible it is and where its weaknesses lie.Īll this goes much deeper than the simple button-push tutorials you will getįrom most other sources for Toolbox. AsĪdministrator, you need to know the capabilities and the limitations of the If you only look at Toolbox’s individual options, you may never understandĮverything it does because you are not aware of the big picture. You be ready to work through various scenarios to see which Toolbox configuration works best for you. Toolbox is, how it works, and why it is as complex as it is. This chapter guides you through all of the options andīefore I discuss how best to implement Toolbox, I cover exactly what Both SolidWorks and ToolboxĪre very complex. However, the default installation is very far from theĬonfiguration in which it actually works best. The promise is automation, and the implication is that it works automatically Of it if you understand and configure its options early on. Managing commonly used library type parts and you will get the most out Toolbox is an add-in for automating tasks related to inserting and SolidWorks customers read this chapter before buying the SolidWorks If you as a SolidWorks Administrator are new to SolidWorks Toolbox, Worth reading if you wrangle Toolbox on a regular basis. This was about 26 pages in the original, and slightly edited here.
I think folks have not carried the torch lit a decade ago by those of us who researched and understood most of this topic.
There was a discussion on the SolidWorks forum that led me to post this.
This is a chapter I wrote for the SolidWorks Administration Bible about 10 years ago.
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